Monthly Archives: September 2022

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The campground chain that made Airstreams into hotel rooms is turning a Super 8 into a luxurious motel — see inside the upcoming Field Station

Field Station Autocamp Hospitality Group will launch its new Field Station hotel concept in early spring 2023. Autocamp’s glamping sites with Airstream-trailer-based hotel rooms became wildly popular during COVID-19. Now its converting existing motels and lodges into Field Station hotels to expand its hospitality portfolio. Autocamp — the hospitality company behind a popular chain of…

I got paid to test ‘Survivor’ challenges. It’s like competing, but you stay in resorts instead of the wild.

Courtesy of Heimata Hall Heimata Hall, 44, is the owner of Tahiti Food Tours, a touring agency in French Polynesia. He worked on “Survivor” for two seasons as part of the show’s “Dream Team,” which tested challenges before they aired. He said it felt like being a contestant — without the mosquitoes, hunger, or actual…

I’m a 62-year-old Instagram influencer who also owns a PR firm. I worried what my clients would think, but being on social media has actually helped my career.

Dian Griesel. Courtesy of Dian Griesel Dian Griesel runs her own PR firm, models, and is an online-content creator. She got her start by networking with people while on commercial sets. She now has 190,000 Instagram followers and speaks to the 50-and-up crowd. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dian Griesel, a…

US stocks fall and bond yields head back up as UK prime minister backs tax-cut plans

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., October 23, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid US stocks dropped on Thursday, giving back some of the prior session’s gains, with the Dow shedding more than 200 points.  The 10-year Treasury yield climbed after it dropped by its widest margin…

Meta’s new Make-a-Video AI can generate quick movie clips from text prompts

Meta unveiled its Make-a-Scene text-to-image generation AI in July, which like Dall-E and Midjourney, utilizes machine learning algorithms (and massive databases of scraped online artwork) to create fantastical depictions of written prompts. On Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Make-a-Scene’s more animated contemporary, Make-a-Video. As its name implies, Make-a-Video is, “a new AI system that…

Adobe brings guided edits and AI animated photos to Photoshop Elements 2023

Ahead of its annual MAX event next month, Adobe has unveiled the 2023 version of its non-subscription Elements products. As with yearspast, the highlights are new AI features like animation for Photoshop Elements images and AI-applied art styles for Premiere. For Photoshop Elements 2023, the most dramatic update is the ability to add motion to…

Which Nintendo Switch is best for you? Switch, Switch Lite or Switch OLED

The Nintendo Switch has proven hugely successful since its introduction in 2017. Worldwide sales topped 111 million just five years later and the Japanese gaming giant seems to have found its feet again. There’s just one problem: which of the three Switch consoles should you buy? The standard Nintendo Switch was joined by the handheld-only…